The DNA of an Innocent Man - April 23 2020 - Today in True Crime

Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com April 23rd: Rodney Reed Kills? (1996) DNA has helped to solve thousands of cases over the years. We rely heavily on it as a piece of evidence and it has the potential to solve an unsolvable case. However, the presence of DNA, and how it got there, can be misinterpreted. On April 23rd 1996 a white woman was killed and on her body was the DNA belonging to a black male. And while the DNA was enough to convict, there remains the question of how it got there. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: morningcupofmurder@gmail.com Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Information for this episode collected from: https://time.com/5722795/rodney-reed-innocent-execution-protests/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Reed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices